Surreal, Quirky, and Diverse: The Manhattan Beach Art Center presents “Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing?”
A leap of the imagination “Are You Seeing What I’m Seeing?” opens Friday at the Manhattan Beach Art Center Drica Lobo, “Orbit of Being”by Bondo Wyszpolski I have mixed views about art, and often they fight one another. Which I encourage. And while I maintain a healthy respect for the Old Masters — Vermeer, Chardin, Rembrandt, Sargent, Manet, and so on — that is to say the exquisite work of art, fine-boned, mannered and elegant, I also think that art should jump down from the wall and slap us around. A shake up so we wake up. After all, art is not just the candle flame, it is also the forest fire, and the artist should at times be as fearless as a matador or a rattlesnake handler. The artist should be mindful, yes, but willing to be reckless, to exceed the speed limit. While art is not always about precision, I feel it should be about risk and exploring new ideas. To quote Karl Ove Knausgaard, “Art lives by transgressing boundaries, by going beyond what everyone has agreed to see and think.” Art demands the right to be confrontational, to step in front of us and say, Hold on! Where do you think you’re going? Show me your papers! But very few artists dare to be outrageous. They fear…
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